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Why is Education Important and Why is Good Parenting Important to EducationWhy is education important? Parents know schooling isimportant for a child's success in life, but just exactly why is education important? What are the facts?
So there are some answers to the question, why is education important. However there is another answer to the question, why is education important? Education is important when it can maintain or even engender your interest in learning because then you will automatically become a lifelong learner. Good parenting can help improve a child's school success. However, first, a parent must understand what education is. Another way of saying it: A parent must understand just what is happening to his child when that child is in school. If the school is forced to emphasize boring, rote learning in its program, a parent needs to know this is the case in order to help her child. For more on why is education important, and is education what you think it is, click here. By making learning fun, children realize learning is fun. Is preschool the most important grade? Click here. Positive parenting can improve success in school if you know why most kids fail. Click here to discover the most common reason children fail to do well in school. Want to help improve your children's chances for success in school? Get help now by reading this article on parent and teacher communication. For things you can do at home to improve your child's chances for school success, click here. Bored child? Surprise him out of the rut by making learning fun with playful parenting. Good parenting is critical to school success. Click here, for the parenting advice page. Click here for information on how to help your child get good grades now. Click here, for surprising facts about public education. To help readers evaluate their children's learning experience both in school and at home, I've included an important article by the famed neuroanatomist and researcher, Dr. Marian Diamond. By comparing Dr. Diamond's recommendations to what is happening in your child's school you can determine why is education important or unimportant to your child. In her article, "What are the Determinants of Children's Academic Successes and Difficulties?" Dr. Diamond lists a number of important points pertinent to the education of our children. When we ask, why is education important? It becomes important as more of Dr. Diamond's recommendations are included in the educational process. From our children's perspective, why is education important? It's not important to them when it proves uninteresting and not meaningful to their lives. As you read her recommendations, notice where your child's education meets her recipe and where it doesn't. Dr. Diamond writes: "Our recipe for an enriched environment to determine academic success:
A nonenriched, impoverished environment, which can cause difficulties and a lack of success, will tend to be opposite in most of these ways, including:
A few notes, regarding Dr. Diamonds recommendations that prove pertinent to our question, why is education important?
We end this section with a message from Dr. Diamond. She says: "Let me take one example, when it comes to providing toys and activities for young children, there is, in general an inverse relationship between the specificity and elaborateness of a toy and its ability to excite the imagination. A cast-off cardboard box can become a doll house, a puppet stage, a school or an alien planet. Tools for exploring, a magnifying glass, an old tape recorder, a map, can open doors in the mind, as can the artifacts of make believe. The more pressure the parent puts on a child to produce something specific, the harder it is for the child to express creativity and imagination. All of these have their role to play in brain development. BUT we have also learned that too much stimulation is detrimental. The cerebral cortex does not show significant growth with too much stimulation as it does with a moderate amount. The brain needs time to transfer information into its association cortex. Allow the child time to think about what is happening and what is coming next. Allow for ample free time too. Creative efforts need time to utilize what has been stored in the brain. DO NOT OVER STIMULATE." Why is education important? Because we've learned that over stimulation is bad for our children's learning. Why is education important? Because it teaches us how to teach our children so they will eagerly learn. Dr. Diamond's recipe is backed by years of research. What's more, it makes sense. As you read this article, on why education is important and other articles in the education section, as well as the parenting section, refer back from time to time to Dr. Diamond's recipe for academic success. I think you will note how positive parenting, playful parenting, "sooner" than possible counseling, etc., complement Dr. Diamond's recipe and help increase a child's chances for academic success. Finally, why is education important and why is parenting important for education? Because a good education is important to the health and future of our children, but it takes good parenting to determine when our kids are being educated properly and when they are not being education but treated like rote learning robots. In the final analysis the question why is education important becomes why is education important to our children, for it is our kids who are being educated; therefore, education must be made meaningfully important to them, and be taught in stimulating environments- even if sometimes it takes a parent to make this happen.
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